UFOMYST
CaseSphere1965

Colonial Heights, VA, USA

Saw sphere ping-ponging up and down and side to side in blue sky.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1965-10-01
Where
Colonial Heights, VA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
37.268, -77.407 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-colonial-heights-va-1965-daa841
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Colonial Heights, VA shows up 5 times across the archive.
  • 6 reports came from Virginia in 1965.
  • In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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